Mutfak çok pis.

very

Breakdown of Mutfak çok pis.

• mutfak: the kitchen
• pis: dirty; filthy

Questions & Answers about Mutfak çok pis.

Why is there no word for is in Mutfak çok pis?

In Turkish, the verb to be is often left out in the present tense, especially in third person sentences like this one.

So:

• Mutfak çok pis. = The kitchen is very dirty.

There is no separate word for is here, but the sentence is still complete and natural in Turkish.

Compare:

• Ben yorgunum. = I am tired.
• O yorgun. = He/She is tired.

In the third person, Turkish usually uses a zero copula in the present tense.

Why does pis come after mutfak instead of before it?

Because here pis is not directly describing the noun inside a noun phrase. It is the predicate of the sentence.

• pis mutfak = a dirty kitchen
  
  • adjective + noun
• Mutfak pis. = The kitchen is dirty.
  
  • noun + adjective

So in Mutfak çok pis, the structure is basically:

• Mutfak = subject
• çok pis = predicate description

That is why pis comes after mutfak.